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Hardly a decade had a greater change than the decades from the 50s, candy colored to the 60s, sober cool, to the 70s, pop frog colored psycho colours.


Apart from the fact that the colour chart itself looks quite yellowed, it is very interesting how one had experienced colours in the 60s.
In the 50s, at least in Germany, it was more like candy, colourful colors, also two tone , the car was a trophy for many from the group of the few who could afford it at all. They could dream into another world with their car. They did what I still do with the Morgan today. They drove to Italy, where the colours were also beautifully rich. Also the colours of the German Heimatfilm (these kitschy films with Alps and unhappy love affairs with the mountain doctor) had such colours.
The 60s seemed like a radical change to me. I consider the 60s to this day one of the most important decades of the 20th century in many respects. It was the break with the 50's kitsch which was like a reaction to forget the horrible time of war.

The sixties were "modern" cool up to undercooled. Also the colors of the movies were suddenly completely different, the colors were harder, often bluish, a very typical color world, e.g. in the movie "Bullit" beautifully to be seen.

And so were the cars. This colour chart from BMC...if you look at the whole palette in a blurry way, it looks like grey. No wonder that there were more than ten shades of grey. Also the view on cars changed, it became more widespread and more functional. Nevertheless, the 60s colours were also attractive and impressively cool in a positive sense.